Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-12-03
CATCHING A PIG.
Points and Authorities from
One who has Tried 1T.


but which a trial demonstrates, call
forth a mans most serious effort.
We have always laborcd under
the impression that 60-pound pig
could be grabbed by the hind leg
and carried off with comparative
ease by man of ordinary size.
This crude idea however has
loosened its grip on US during the
last few days.
| Last Thursday we ambled up to
pig like a member of the Manhattan
ball club getting on deck for
strike, and reached for his hind leg.
Just then he had to take step we
had not expected him to make, and
the leg was not there anymore.
Several more reaches were made,
but all fell short, and what was the
most surprising part of it, the pig,
which was so absorbed in his root
ing that he never looked up, always
happened to move just at the right
time to be missed. While regard
ing it as a, coincidence, (for the ami
NAL did not even know we were
there, we stole up so quietly), it
was one OF those annoying coinci-
dences that is not easy to account
for. If we were writing q treatise
on condolences we should give this
a prominent place.
Presently we got the animal in a
corner, and in order to be sure,
fell down on it bodily. Again one
of those internal chance movements
took place; the pig took two steps
to gather a potatoe, and We fell fiat
on TIE place where the pig had just
been. Then he looked round for
the first time, and perceiving us ly-
ing there grunted his establishment
and trotted away.
He was SO astonished at seeing a
man lying there on his stomach,
splitting gravel out of his mouth,
that he went off and stuck his head
in a barrel to give his brain rest.
Then we slid up quietly, and by a
finely calculated cryptogramus move
ment snatched him by the hind leg.
This was probably what caused the
barrel to rise up suddenly and hit
us on the nose.
The wrestling match seemed to
begin at this point. First we got
a collar-and-elbow hold on the bar
rel and stood it on its head. Then
the pig got a grapevine lock and
threw us over the barrel. Then
we got Cornish grip on the ami
NAL and threw him, and were in
turn downed by the barrel.
Then we got half Nelson, Gaeco-
Roman lock on the pigs neck, but
it got out with half turn and SOM
ersault and grabbed us by the seat
of the trousers. Claim of foul dis
allowed by female referee on the
front steps, OH grounds that the
pigs tail had also been grabbed in
the turn.
Then the pig, with a new style of
wrestling, heretofore unknown to
us, turned US a somersault. If
pig blind folded by a barrel could
play this sort of games, it occurred
to us that there was no telling what
he might not do with his head
loose.
This idea, and the feeling that he
might put his head out of the bar
rel, or the barrel head out, or get
us out OF our head, had most de-
moralizipg effect.
Suddenly, by coup de main act,
we stood the barrel on end, with |
the pigs hind quarters in the air,
and thought that we had tie match
won; but the animal wiggled down
in the barrel, and as we lowered it !
on its side to prevent his weight an
moving him any further, he made
an extraordinary movement. He
smashed out the barrel head, and |
as we had him by the leg, dragged |
us after him into the barrel.
When we let go, Ito prevent the
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